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NOTICE how the discussion of health care reform in the media
NEVER touches on the REAL issues. It's all about "our party" vs. "the
other party".
Always FOLLOW THE MONEY. In this case, the gravy train for
the hospitals, doctors, malpractice lawyers, Big Pharma, and insurance
industry, remains intact.
Here's that terrific analysis again
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200909/health-care
--- On Thu, 9/24/09, Jim Wilson <[email protected]>
wrote:
From: Jim Wilson <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Why do the prices of turbos go down while health care
goesup?
To: [email protected], "'Casey Wheeler'"
<[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009, 1:11 PM
BINGO – my
friends dad is on the Board of
Blue Cross/ Blue shield and he agrees with that – and they would stand
to make
less money doing it.
my
physician said the
single best step would be to allow health insurers to compete across
state lines
more easily. he's probably right.
we could
pick from
100 insurers instead of 2 or 3 heavily regulated (and in bed with that
state legislature)
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Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Why do the prices of turbos go down while health care goes
up?
From: Casey Wheeler <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, September 24, 2009 9:10 am
To: Jason C <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
I want to
keep the
discussion going cause there are many smart people here, but I have to
get to a
meeting. But I wantto say the single largest reason why healthcare is
so
expensive, is becuase it cannot operate as a free normal market does
with
normal goods. The governemnt has imposed so so so so many regualtions,
taxes,
red tape, hurdles etc all over the place that it take 1000 people just
get a
caprel tunnel release done. If we could back the governemnt out of this
and let
the market function normally, you would see prices of common surgeries
drop
like intel waffers. That is the simplest function of a market, supply
and
demand and where they intersect.
Casey
Sent from my iPhone
Uh-oh, offtopic worms crawling
out of a can!
Nobody seems to point out that
the reform proposals will still leave us with overpriced health care.
Who are the profiteers? It's not the insurance cos - their profit
margins aren't all that huge.
This article discusses
something that never seems to be discussed - the reasons for the high
cost.
NOBODY seems to ask, "where do
all the dollars go anyway"?
Why did my cat's eye surgery
cost $2,500, which on a person would have cost $15,000?
Why are there dozens of pet
hospitals in my area (all for-profit) but only a few people hospitals?
Why does the price of memory
and LCD monitors go down while health care goes up?
Why do the prices of MRI's
stay up while the cost of breast implants go down?
Why does the average movie
rental shop have a more sophisticated IT system than the average
hospital?
The answers may be surprising
to some - it is because competition is STIFLED in health care - it is
LACK of free market competition that causes high prices.
This article analyzes the
problems in detail with example after example - it is long but very
well worth reading in its entirety:
How
American Health Care Killed My Father
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